Coin-guard for vending-machines.



R. T. HOSKING. COIN GUARD FOR VENDING MACHINES. APPLICATION mgn JUNE I6.1911.

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RICHARD T. HOSKING, 0F SAG-INAW, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN BANKINGMACHINE CORPORATION, OF SAGIN AW, IEICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

COI N- GUARD FOR VENDING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

Application filed June 16, 1917. Serial No. 175,117.

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD T. HosKINe, a citizen of the United States,residing at Saginaw, in the county of aginaw and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin- Guards forVending-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to machines adapted to receive and stack coinsand pertains more particularly to means adapted to insure the correctand positive functioning of the coin-stacking device and the properfeeding of the coins thereinto.

M improvement is adapted to be used in conjunction with coin-actuatedvending machines such as that described in my Patent No, 1,163,012,issued December 7, 1915, or it may be used in connection with any othertype of machine in which it is desired to consecutively stack coins in atube or equivalent receptacle.

My present improvement pertains more particularly to means forpreventing the displacement of the coins in the tube and the consequentclogging of the coin-receiving slot, which sometimes formerly resultedin rendering coin-stacking machines inoperative.

In practice if a coin is fed into a stacking tube or receptacle by meansof a feeding-in slide or otherwise, and the machine is suddenly jarred,as by a blow, it sometimes occurs that the coin last inserted may bejarred forward so as to project outside of the tube. Undersuchcircumstances the next succeeding coin which is fed into the tube is aptto jam under the projecting coin and block the feeding-in slide,consequentlv rendering the machine inoperative.

Similarly, dislodgment of the coin may be caused by the sudden releaseof the feeding-in slide, allowing it to fly back quickly and impingeagainst the frame of the machine, under the action of theslide-operating spring, thereby suddenly jarring the coin-stacking tube.

To avoid such occurrences and to render the machine operative,regardless of such jolts or jars, I have provided the device which willbe described herein and pointed out in the claims.

\Vith the foregoing and certain other objects in View which will bedescribed in the specification, my invention consists in the devicesdescribed and claimed and the equivalents thereof.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a vertical section through a machine containing myimprovement, the section being taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view.

Fig. 3 is a similar vertical section, broken away in part, showing thebase plate and tube without my improvement attached.

Fig. 4 is a part sectional side elevation of the lower end of the tubewith m improvement attached.

Fig. 5 is a central vertical section of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a front View of the tube and guard.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation showing a modified form of lifting device forthe movable guard or latch.

As is clearly shown in the drawings, the device consists in a coinreceptacle, as a tube 1, into which coins are fed by means of aspring-retracted feeding-in slide 2, which moves back and forth on thebase plate 3.

A yieldingly mounted movable latch 4, which comprises the subject-matterof my present invention, is located in front of the entrance opening orslot of the tube 1. This yieldingly mounted latch 4 may be supported inany suitable manner, but I have shown as a convenient means of mountingthelatch, a sleeve 5 slidingly received on the tube 1 and carrying theprojecting latch 4 which is positioned normally in front of thecoinreceiving opening of the tube, but is automatically removedtherefrom when a coin is inserted in the tube. One end of aspring 6 maybe fastened to a lug 7 carried by the sleeve 5 and its other end may befixed to any stationary part of the tube 1, as lug 8, to yieldingly holdthe sleeve and the latch in their normal position.

Referring to Fig. 5, the lower coin 9, having been properly insertedinto the tube 1, will be in the position shown. The lower coin maybecome displaced, as previously described, by a sudden jolt or jar onthe tube 1 and may then be in the position shown at 10, in Fig. 3,projecting beyond the edge of the tube 1. Hence the next succeeding coin(indicated by dotted lines at 11 in Fig. 3) can not be properly fed intothe tube, being blocked by the projecting coin 10.

In a machine equipped with a feeding-in slide 2, as shown in Figs. 1, 2and 3, a too sudden retracting of the slide, as by letting it slip andfly back, may so jar the machine that the lower coin 10 will bedisplaced and caused to project as shown in Fig. 3, resulting inblocking the machine.

It is, therefore, necessary that the lower coin 9 (see Fig. 5) shall bekept from proj ecting beyond the edge of the tube. I, therefore, preferto bevel the inner edge of the tube, as at 13, to permit the coins inthe tube to rise, and I provide the longitudinally movable latch 1, aspreviously described, to retain the last coin in position.

An inclined guide 12 is commonly used to deflect the entering edge ofthe incoming coin upward, so as to lift the stack of coins in the tube.

It will be noted that in the foregoing description the entering coin 11is described as being the means by which the latch is raised, and thatthe latch l is the means employed to prevent the lower coin fromprojecting beyond the tube.

It is not essential for the purpose of my present invention that thelatch 4 be actuated by contact of the entering coin, as the otherequivalent means may be provided for lifting the latch when the coinenters the tube. I have shown in Fig. 7 a modified construction, inwhich the latch 4: is automatically raised, without being touched by thecoin when the slide 2 is advanced to feed a coin into the tube 1.

In Fig. 7, 14 represents a pin or suitable projection carried by thesleeve 5, and 15 is a cam or wiper carried by the slide 2 and having itsadvancing end beveled to engage the under side of the projection 14, toraise the sleeve 5 and its latch 4t.

In both the preferred and the alternate constructions, however, it willbe noted that the latch 4 is automatically raised to permit theadvancing coin to enter, when the feeding-in slide 2 is'advanced, andwhen the slide 2 is retracted the latch 4: again drops into position infront of the receiving opening of tube 1 to prevent displacement of thecoin which was last received, thereby effectually preventing blockingthe machine.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. In combination, a coin-stacking receptacle formed with acoin-receiving slot at its lower end, a coin-propelling device adaptedto impel coins consecutively through said slot and into said receptacleunderneath the coin last inserted, a coin-retaining guard for said slot,said guard comprising a yield ingly mounted vertically movable latch,normally located in front of and adjacent to said slot and adapted toprevent the displacement of the bottom coin in said receptacle, saidlatch adapted to be raised by engagement with a coin when said coin,carried by said coin-propelling device, is advanced to enter said slot.

2. In combination, a coin-stacking receptacle formed with acoin-receiving slot at its lower end, a coin-propelling device adaptedto impel coins consecutively through said slot and into said receptacleunderneath the coin last inserted, a base plate, an inclined guidecarried by said base plate and adapted to deflect the edge of anentering coin upward, a coin-retaining guard for said slot, said guardcomprising a sleeve slidingly mounted on and capable of verticalmovement with respect to said receptacle and carrying a projecting latchnormally located in front of and adjacent said slot and adapted toprevent the displacement of the bottom coin in said receptacle, saidlatch adapted to be raised by engagement with a coin. when said coin,carried by said coin-propelling device, is advanced to enter said slot.

3. In combination, a coin-stacking receptacle formed with acoin-receiving slot at its lower end, a coin-propelling device adaptedto impel coins consecutively through said slot and into said receptacleunderneath the coin last inserted, a coin-retaining guard for said slot,said guard comprising a yieldingly mounted vertically movable latchnormally located in front of and adjacent said slot, and adapted toprevent the displacement of the bottom coin in said receptacle, andmeans adapted to actuate said latch and raise it when saidcoin-propelling device is advanced to insert a coin in said slot.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD T. HOSKING.

Witnesses:

NELLIE M. ANGUS, Roy WALLIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, byaddressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G."

